Everything you need to know about Desmond Napoles, the drag kid who walked at New York Fashion Week

Desmond Napoles lit up the runway at Gypsy Sport Fall/Winter 2018-2019 yesterday in New York. At just ten years old, this LGBTQIA activist is a self-proclaimed ‘drag kid’. Meet a fresh face from Brooklyn.

Desmond Napoles lit up the runway at Gypsy Sport Fall/Winter 2018-2019 yesterday in New York. At just ten years old, this LGBTQIA activist is a self-proclaimed ‘drag kid’. Meet a fresh face from Brooklyn.

He may only be ten, but Desmond Napoles is already a leading spokesperson for the LGBTQIA community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, asexual) on his native East Coast. Born in 2007 on the first day of Gay Pride, the young boy, who is better known as Desmond is Amazing, has become the drag queens’ new mascot. Since he was just six years old, Napoles has enjoyed dressing in women’s clothes, and after being spotted at New York Gay Pride 2015, the boy was thrust into the spotlight last September when 1990s drag icon RuPaul brought him into the opening ceremony of DragCon annual Drag Queen convention. Since then, he has been seen in a music video for one of the contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race and launched the Haus of Amazing project, which creates a space dedicated to drag children. On Sunday February 11, Desmond Napoles’ career took yet another turn as he made his first catwalk appearance for Gypsy Sport, in a vampire-esque black look with leather boots and acrylic nails. Is this the start of a soaring career?

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Inside the February issue

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